Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Today I worked on the second part of John Faheys Santa Fe Railway Boise City sub.
This video like part 1 was created back in 2015 with the help of John at the controls of his locomotives whist cameras where rolling.

So sit back and enjoy an Athearn F45 in Warbonnet scheme in the lead of its train as it winds its way around the SF Boise City sub.

I took this video quite a while ago on Johns now Fallen Flag Santa Fe Railroad Boise City Sub.
This is part one and there should be some additional content added over coming days or weeks. John dismantled his RR after selling his home in June 2015.
Many great operating sessions were held over a good number of years.

Wednesday, 2 August 2017

Living in the unit waiting for our new house to be completed is a pain in the but. It has been just over 12 months already and I'm right in the middle of cabin fever. I have not done very much at all in planning for my next RR based on the MOPAC however have acquired a few additional cars and a new IM SD40-2 in the UP scheme with sound.
This post is more about some further weathering I have been able to get done by using the kitchen table as a work space and waiting for the occasional warm day in which to be able to spray Dullcote onto the rolling stock.
This is the latest 40 car I have attempted based on a pic off the web. Apologies for the poor photograph as the light was not the best when I shot them.
This is the image taken from the web. The car to the far left with the large ICG wording is the scheme I had and tried to emulate

Here is the MT original in its clean state before being attacked.

Here below we see that I have given it a spray with Dullcote and commenced the fading as best I could. I used an acrylic paint called Cool Grey applied with a wide flat brush and then quickly wiped almost all of it off using a small piece of paper towel.

The roof received it's share as well.

Now both sides had been given a grey coat and a spray of Dullcote to seal it for the next phase.

The car has now received its first light wash of Van Dyke Brown oil paint.

And here is the completed car after receiving a second wash of Van Dyke Brown. MT couplers painted flat black and a dab of Pan Pastel rust colour and new FVM 33"metal wheels one with a resistor for block detection. The wheels were painted Tamiya Red Brown, the coupler trip pin painted flat black with a dab of chrome silver on the lower tip.